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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






2. A strong pause within a line.






3. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






4. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






5. A character struggles against some outside force.






6. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






7. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






8. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






9. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






10. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






11. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






12. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






13. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






14. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






15. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






16. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






17. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






18. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






19. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






20. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






21. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.






22. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






23. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






24. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






25. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






26. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






27. The dictionary meaning of a word.






28. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






29. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






30. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






31. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.






32. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






33. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






34. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






35. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






36. A four line stanza in a poem.






37. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






38. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






39. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.






40. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






41. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






42. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






43. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






44. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






45. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






46. What a story or play is about.






47. A poem that tells a story.






48. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






49. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






50. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.